Manifolding tablet or book.



No. 738,418. v PATENTED SEPT. s, 1903.. F.J.GOTA.

MANIFOLDING lABLET 0R BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented September s, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

MANIFOLDING TABLET OR BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,413, dated September 8, 1903. Application filed November 15,1902. $erialNo.131,539. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK J. Go'IA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Menominee, in the county of Menominee and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Manifolding Tablet or Book, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in manifolding-books, and relates especially to account-books used with credit customers, the

object being to provide a book in which an entry will be' duplicated upon an under sheet by means of an intermediate carbon-sheet; and a further object is to provide a book whereby the account of each customer is kept separately and in duplicate, the merchant holding the original entries bound in book form and the customer holding the detached leaves, each containing an itemized statement of the amount purchased at the time the entry was made or of the amount paid,-if a payment was made, and in either case showing the full amount due and unpaid provided there is an unpaid balance. the chances of error from the confusing of accounts of various customers or from failure to have the entries on the merchants book agree with those on the memoranda given the customer are reduced to a minimum.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of my improved book closed. Fig. 2 is a View of the book, the covers being open,

the carbon-sheet being in position for use.

Fig. 3 is a view showing the book partly closed, the carbon-sheet lying directly under its protective cover. Fig. at is a side elevation, the book being closed. -Fig. 5 is a detail of construction.

In the drawings, A represents a continuous flexible back, preferably formed of a tough substantially stiff paper.

B is an oblong book formed of a plurality of leaves, to be described hereinafter.

The sheet A is bent to form three portions A, A and A, the portions A A being longer than the portion A.

The book B has a flexible binding B,extending but a short distance from the bound edges of the leaves. The book is laid upon the section A with the binding B adjacent the portion A. Metal fasteners 13* are then driven through the bindingB', the leaves of the book,

In this manner and the portion A and clamped or clenched on the outer side of A The leaves of which the book is formed are preferably of difierent colors or of tinted leaves alternating with white leaves. leaf bears the words Name, Date, Book No. at the top, with sufficient space following them to permit the name of the customer, date of transaction, and number of the book to be inserted. Below this heading the leaves are properly ruled by horizontal and vertical lines, the horizontal lines being numbered on the left-hand side of the page and having two vertical columns on the right, one being for the itemized statement of the transaction of even date with the date at the top of the page and the other for a summary of the aggregate of any amounts due from previous transactions. The tinted or colored sheets are divided adjacent their bound edges by lines of weakness B (shown in Fig. 3,) the upper permanent page being removed in order to show same. A carbon-sheet C is permanently secured at one end to the portion A and is adapted to lie on the portion A the back of the carbon resting against A and when the book is closed the face of the carbon will rest on the leaves of the book. It will be particularly noted that when the completed book is opened the leaves of the book fold back in one direction and the carbon-leaf in the opposite direction.

In use the carbon is folded under the ruled leaf, resting face down on the tinted leaf, and any entry made on the top leaf is necessarily transferred to the tinted leaf, which is then torn out along the lines of Weakness and handed the customer, whose name is inserted at the top of each permanent page. It will be noted that the carbon cannot be placed so as to transfer the account to the back of the permanent leaf, no matter how hurried the merchant may be, as is often the case when loose carbon sheets are used. When the entry has been made, the carbonsheet is thrown back, and as it folds back in a direction away from the lines of weakness there is no danger of tearing the carbon-sheet in detaching the duplicate entry for the customer. When the book is folded, the car .bon is folded back under the portion A which serves as a protector for the carbon" The first and every alternate Letters Patent, is-

1. In a book of the kind described, the combination with a continuous flexible cover, of a blank-book inclosed by said cover and adapted to fold back over one end of said cover, and a carbon-sheet permanently secured to the cover beneath the free edges of the book and adapted to be folded over the leaves of the book and to be opened in a direction opposite to the direction in which the book is opened.

2. In a book of the kind described, the combination with a flexible cover bent into three portions, of an account-book resting on and secured to the middle portion, and a carbon-sheet permanently secured to the middle portion beneath the free edges of the book and adapted to fold over the said edges.

, FRED. OOTA.,

Witnesses:

LEWIS D. EASTMAN, KATHRYN DORAN. 

